Some poems that have been hiding...

bunch of poems from the past

Repentence
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I hurt you
I know
What I did was not that extraordinary, though
Many people have behaved in similar ways
When confronted with the truth of how they feel
To tell someone you love that you no longer believe
In a dream that was shared, only not for real
not so much shared, but tossed back and forth between
Like most of the dreams
Between us
It's the truth that hurts the most
And so I was trying to live a lie,
And I thought I could come to believe
In us
Enough to make it true
Believe like I once did,
That you were the one I wanted to share my life with
Forever
But we did share life together
for some time
And forever is as forever does
And now you know what was hidden in me
And I know that we're over
I’m sorry that I hurt you
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First words on screen
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At this moment...
You are filling out the pages of my dreams
With just one stroke of your keys
I get the sensation of you
Your energy carried through
Electrical impulses of this computer screen
Your picture becomes deceptively real in an instant
You, typing from such a far off distance
Suddenly I am awakened to your magnetic field
and I can feel magnetism when I imagine you
You have been in my periphery for years
Sometimes I enjoy watching you from the fringe of your life
Feeling a connection to what you stand for and what you do
Remembering feeling a connection to you



Alone with words
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The arousal of words blending together
In a harmony of sounds that drip and dip
And sounds that blast and bang
And letters that slip and stumble
A symphony of consonants and vowels
Wrapping around each other
Intertwining and pulsating
Laughing and screaming
connected by the tongue
These words are alive and breathing
One resting gently upon the next
Snuggling together to create a warmer sound
A sound that glows and radiates
The calm that follows poetry in motion
Then the deep and quiet sleep
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Short and sweet
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Your eyes, your lips
A salty kiss
With sweaty hands
And dirty grips
Another night
Best to stay in
And close my eyes,
Imagine this

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Solar eclipse
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I was hiding
Covering my fire with cold craters
Beautifully aligned to disguise behind the newness of the moon
So strangely distant
My warmth once removed
I grew stronger in that shadow
Emerging re-birthed
Open
Free
No more guarding my intensity
My flames reaching far
Energy to burn
The arrival of a new day
New life
The phoenix never dies
But once in a while
The sun hides
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My tattoo
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You burn,
branded into me
Your mark made without a stroke
But still I wear your name upon my breast
You are written in the script of my dreams
You are me
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A strange meeting
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The years have passed like water through stones
And we have both had our share
Of being stoned
Of time distorted through the hourglass bend
Being buried under sand
Rivers rushing past
It’s good to know you now
We are past recovery road
And this intersection of our lives
Has been a nice peaceful rest before we go our separate ways
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Blankets
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Flying over the blanket of cotton
that drapes the sky
I remember my leg draped over your thigh
I remember my arms holding tightly to your chest
Holding you so that I could rest
Behind me are those memories
And before me a picture I've never seen
And a story I've not yet told
And I wonder if I will hold you once more
When tomorrow becomes yesterday
And both of our stories unfold
And we lie beneath a blanket that hides us from the world
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